Yeah steam is down hard, site, client, server status page, etc. Good ole valve, they ALWAYS ALWAYS have issues during a sale. You'd think they'd look at traffic growth patterns and plan for it. Wait, that's too boring, no one wants to wheel their desks over.This time though, instead of glitches the whole thing is gone. Must all be asleep in Christmas vacation, must be no one monitoring at the office, must be no one setup for alerting on phones when network problems happen, steam twitter has no posts for 24 hours.

jacobvandy wrote on Dec 23, 2016, 13:01:Just out of curiosity.. What can Australia do to enforce this? If Valve has been ignoring them, and if they continue to do so, what's gonna happen? Are they gonna sue, then nobody from Valve shows up, and Steam gets banned down there, or what?

Yeah, it could start there. It could also escalate through world courts, trade things, etc. But I doubt valve wants to lose 2.2 million customers.Also looks like valve admitted in court (I RTFA) that they didn't bother to check local laws or compliance when they started selling there or afterwards. The judge hit them "hard" for doing that. Probably the same in every country where valve sells. Valve suggested a $250k fine, and the judge laughed at that and said (rightly so) that valve wouldn't even notice that. I'd argue they won't notice the $3 mill much either lol.So, all those people who say on occasion valve is violating local laws, yeah they probably are, since they didn't bother to check. Too boring a job to wheel desk over and check laws, so they just start selling.

BTW, I believe that tomb raider pack "20 Year Celebration" includes all the DLC, season pass, etc.At least it did when I bought it a month ago. It's not advertised like that, so I was pleasantly surprised and started playing the game. I've been enjoying it.

Cutter wrote on Dec 10, 2016, 11:07:Well I'm not driving around there so I'll never have anything to worry about. I love how that works.

It's just starting there. Nothing stopping it from happening elsewhere. Like credit card skimming is becoming widespread in USA, started in big cities. And now credit card companies just brilliantly pushed deadlines back another few years for gas stations to upgrade to chip.

DDI wrote on Nov 11, 2016, 12:10:Talk about failing to read the article. All of the information will be exposed via REST which opens it up so that anyone can present what was in the security bulletin in their own way. It will make it far easier to figure out what update fixed which vulnerability.

Yet, it will make the job of a sys admin who is just trying to figure out WTF ms patched in this months rollup harder.

Sure they are, at least many of the parts. Supreme court saying a EULA can force a someone to arbitrate and not able to do class action law suit is just the latest in a long run of EULA pieces being enforceable.

Sure, like every other writer on the Web, I want my articles to be widely read, which means I want you to Like and Tweet and email this piece to everyone you know. But if you had any inkling of doing that, you’d have done it already. You’d probably have done it just after reading the headline and seeing the picture at the top. Nothing I say at this point matters at all.

Sad commentary on the state of society that most tweets and comments are based off the headlines and someone could write total garbage for the rest of the article

"Mostly negative" avg reviews, yikes!Edit: Weird mix of language vs negative reviews. Like all the foreign language ones are negative and English are positive. Did they screw the pooch with MP in other regions or what?